ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
SHUNTING FATALITY. Thomas H. Lightfoot, a middle-aged shunter employed in the Chrmtchurch railway goods yards, was killed at o.JU p.m. yesterday, when run over by a rake of trucks and a C class engine in the yards. He died before he could be extricated from beneath the tender of the engine, which had to be jacked up to remove the body_. Lightfoot was working on a rake of trucks moving in the opposite direction, when he stepped off and was apparently caught by the foremost truck of the rake which, the engine was pushing on the next track. DEATH DURING AN/ESTHESIA. At the inquest at Wellington oa Christopher Redington, aged two and a-half years, a finding was returned of heart failure during anesthesia at the hospital. The verdict added that-the anesthetic had been properly admims* tered. PILLION RIDER INJURED. When the motor cycle on which he was riding pillion skidded in loose gravel in Shetland street last night, Steve Mulqueen, aged 25, residing at East Taieri, was thrown to the ground. He was admitted to the Hospital at 8.20 with concussion and scalp wounds.
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Evening Star, Issue 22629, 22 April 1937, Page 11
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187ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 22629, 22 April 1937, Page 11
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